Opinion
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Diabetes and Personal Triumph
Opinion -Review of Not Dead Yet: My Race Against Disease: From Diagnosis to Dominance, by Phil Southerland and John Hanc, Thomas Dunne Books, $17. -
Net Neutrality: Prevention Worse Than Cure
Opinion -By John Stephenson“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” wrote Benjamin Franklin. That is certainly true when you are talking about your health. But what if there is no threat to your health? -
USA Today Explains Benefits of Keystone XL Pipeline
Opinion -USA Today has published an excellent house editorial explaining why it is important for the Obama administration to approve construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline that would deliver oil from Canada’s oil sands to refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast. -
Government Employees Indicted for IT Collusion
Opinion -Four men—including two senior employees of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers—were indicted in October for alleged bribery and kickbacks of approximately $20 million in inflated costs added to government contracts over the last couple of years. -
New Temperature Study Misses the Point
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #28The mainstream media has been spiking the football in the proverbial end zone ever since a paper released October 21 claimed two-thirds of global temperature stations show some warming occurred during the past century. -
Heartland Institute Reacts to FCC’s Reform of the USF
Opinion -The Federal Communications Commission today voted unanimously to redirect the mission of the Universal Service Fund from subsidizing rural phone service to subsidizing rural high-speed broadband. -
Kansas Independent Telcos Seek FCC Answers on USF Reforms
Opinion -The Kansas Rural Independent Telecommunications Companies organization has asked the Federal Communications Commission for a clearer explanation of the proposed changes for the $5.8 billion Universal Service Fund the agency administers. -
Occupy Free Speech?
Opinion -I want to be perfectly clear: I don't believe all Occupy Wall Street protestors foam at the mouth, possess bad hygienic habits, or are uneducated and lazy. But some say stupid, ugly things. Like Los Angeles substitute teacher Patricia McAllister. -
Los Angeles Teachers Union Demands Thousands Be Rehired
Opinion -The United Teachers Los Angeles teachers union is demanding the Los Angeles Unified School District use a $55 million budget surplus to rehire 1,200 teachers laid off in the last year. -
Obama’s Accountable Care Organizations Make Lackluster Debut
Opinion -Accountable Care Organizations were originally intended to be the crown jewel of President Obama’s cost-saving measures for health care. But it now appears many of the entities touted as potential ACOs have decided to pass on the whole idea. -
Medicare’s Flawed Bundled Payment Experiment
Opinion -For several years now, scholars have been calling for a radical change in how Medicare pays doctors and hospitals. -
Skepticism Greets Obama’s Latest Mortgage Program
Opinion -A failing program to help home mortgage borrowers is the basis for the newest Obama administration program to help home mortgage borrowers. -
The Real Solyndra Scandal
Opinion -The unfolding collapse of solar cell maker Solyndra surely reflects poorly on the Obama administration and its drive to build a “green economy.” That said, many media reports have made both too much and too little of Solyndra. -
Heartland Institute Responds to Obama’s Student Loan Executive Order
Opinion -President Obama today announced a plan to provide relief of student-loan debt via executive order. -
Trailer Narc
Opinion -A Michigan woman is suing the distributors of the film Drive because there wasn’t very much driving in it.She claims the distributors violated consumer protections laws because the movie trailer misled her into buying a ticket. -
FCC Turns Down Permit to Test Potential Spectrum-Enhancing Technologies
Opinion -The Federal Communications Commission rejected a Portland, Oregon television station’s request for a Special Temporary Authority permit to test digital television transmissions that could free up valuable spectrum for wireless broadband deployment, a -
Occupy Wall Street Moves to the Schoolyard
Opinion -The Occupy Wall Street protest movement turned its attention towards education to “Occupy Sesame Street,” as one protestor cried, during a speech by News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch at a school reform conference in San Francisco. -
Senate Moves on NCLB Reauthorization
Opinion -The U.S. Senate is considering an 860-page bill and 868-page amendment by Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Mike Enzi (R-WY) to reauthorize No Child Left Behind. The proposal passed the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Oct. -
Warming Not Making Floods Worse, Study Finds
Opinion -There is no increase in the magnitude of flooding events in the United States during the past century as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have risen, scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey report in the peer-reviewed Hydrological Sciences Journal. -
Pennsylvania County Says FCC Mandate Will Cost $100 Million
Opinion -Bucks County, Pennsylvania has joined a growing number of U.S. municipalities claiming the Federal Communications Commission’s narrowbanding mandate poses insurmountable financial hardships. -
How to Stabilize the Housing Market
Opinion -(NOTE: This letter was submitted to the Washington Post on October 25, 2011. -
NLRB: Facebook Comments ‘Protected Concerted Activity’
Opinion -A September National Labor Relations Board decision reversed the termination of five employees fired for posting on the Facebook social networking site negative comments regarding their workplace. -
Broken Promises of Obamacare
Opinion -When he was selling his health care reform law to the American people, President Obama made numerous promises. -
Tricks of the Trade
Opinion -Hooters restaurant chain is suing the owner of the Twin Peaks chain for stealing trade secrets.
